Paige Chen

Greater Boston · (347) 957-1561 · chenpeiqi9915@gmail.com

I am a Software Engineer/Researcher/Photographer based in Boston. I am a detail-oriented software developer, a good communicator, a team player with strong CS fundamentals!!

Experience

Software Developer

Pax Technology

  • Led the development of a secure payment application using Java for Android, utilized singleton design pattern and polymorphism to improve overall codebase efficiency and maintainability by 60%.
  • Developed seamless Bluetooth connectivity between the application and payment terminal hardware, built thread monitoring mechanism to manage thread number, 100% elimination of waiting time due to thread conflicts.
  • Supported multiple kinds of authentication to ensure the confidentiality of sensitive financial data, used OkHttp to send requests to RESTful APIs and handled responses with callback, optimizing overall system functionality by 50%.
  • Participated in team meetings to discuss improvements, maintained up-to-date documentations for clients.

October 2023 - Present

Software Engineering Intern

Athenahealth

  • Delivered back-end functions inside an internal cloud micro service that update data in database with TypeScript, increased the performance by 3 times via async programming and array map.
  • Built React components to render users’ data on web which enabled users browse and manage schedules, achieved front-end loading speed up to 50% by reducing unnecessary requests and enhancing user experience.
  • Crafted test scripts using Jest for functions for CI/CD pipeline on Jenkins, saving manual effort by 60%.

June 2022 - August 2022

Front-end Developer

  • Contributed to API security enhancement for an online shopping platform with over 25,000 active users.
  • Optimized login functionality by migrating to a widely-used and well-supported database, resulting in streamlined data management and increased user click rate by 10%.
  • Managed a team of 8+ orchestrated the development of an internal video player project, mainly focused on front-end.
  • Built the layout with React supporting key functions such as video recommendations, posting, designed caching strategies in backend, reducing page load time cost by 0.5-1 second.

October 2017 - October 2020

Cloud Service Research Intern

Microsoft

July 2020 - August 2020

Education

New York University

Master of Science in Computer Engineering
Relevant Coursework:
  • Stochastic process
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Center and Cloud Computing
  • Deep Learning
  • Data Engineering
  • Big Data
September 2021 - May 2023

Tianjin University

Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering
Relevant Coursework:
  • Programming in Java
  • Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Web Development
  • Software Testing
Awards:

Chu Xin Scholarship (1/200) 2019, Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award (20/200) 2021

September 2017 - July 2021

Skills

Programming Languages
Libraries & Tools
  • Spring Boot
  • Hibernate
  • Maven
  • RabbitMQ
  • React.js
  • NPM
  • Node.js
  • PyTorch
  • PostgreSQL
  • Flask
  • Spark
Developer Skills
  • Git, Jenkins, Jira and Bitbucket
  • AWS S3, RDS, Azure, Docker
  • Unit Testing
  • Scrum Development

Publication

This section displays my publications which had been done out of my own interest when I was a Bachelor student.

Compiler test-program generation via memoized configuration search
2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

Compiler Testing Research with Prof. Junjie Chen

Efficient compiler autotuning via bayesian optimization
2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

Compiler Tuning Research with Prof. Junjie Chen

Deeplive: QoE optimization for live video streaming through deep reinforcement learning
2019 IEEE 25th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS)

Network adapting Research with Prof. Laiping Zhao

ElaX: Provisioning Resource Elastically for Containerized Online Cloud Services
2019 IEEE 21st International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications

Cloud service Research with Prof. Laiping Zhao

Awards & Certifications

  • 2021 Outstanding Graduate Students, Tianjin University
  • 2019 Chu Xin Scholarship (1/200), Tianjin University
  • 2019 First Prize of Global Artificial Intelligent Network Transmission Competition (AITrans)